Papageno

Summary

Dominique Pagani discusses Papageno, a character in Mozart's The Magic Flute, several times between 2017 and 2023. He first presents him as the bird-catcher in the service of the Queen of the Night and reads the birds he catches as symbols of visions and dreams, in a session devoted to Nerval1. He then mainly retains the character's prosaic and popular nature. In his view, Papageno's aria shows the popular side of the opera2. He makes him a non-mystical hero who wants nothing but ham, beer and a little wife34. He traces his name to Papagei, the parrot, because the character is talkative4. He takes up this trait again in 2023, when he presents Papageno and his companion as the work's human couple and adds that Papageno sins through an excess of speech5. He also brings him into a session on happiness set against the death drive in music3.

1. 1#4.3 Angélique (de Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 14:30
2. 2#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 6:24
3. 3Musicosophie 5. Bonheur contre pulsion de mort en musique11 Dec 2020 · 20:14
4. 4#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 28:20
5. 5Naissance et carnage - Le massacre des Innocents22 Dec 2023 · 1:23:52

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.